Goodwood Art Foundation, West Sussex
The late great land artist’s alfresco metal and concrete works are richly engaging and elemental – but the gallery material indoors lacks some heft

It pays to think big if you’re an artist. You know, zoom out and try to get away from the minutiae of life, the tedium of the everyday, and think on a bit more of a universal scale instead. Land artist Nancy Holt (1938-2014) was a master at it; at using her work to place the body, and wider humanity, in a global, cosmic context. Holt and the other land artists of her generation – people like Michael Heizer, Richard Long and her partner, Robert Smithson – wanted to break out of the restrictions of paint and canvas, stone and chisel, gallery and museum. Land, nature, the world itself, was the medium.

Goodwood is a fine setting for the biggest UK exhibition of her work to date – an expansive, lush estate in the middle of the rolling West Sussex countryside. There are two big sculptural installations placed around the grounds, Ventilation System and Hydra’s Head. In the first, a huge metallic mechanism pokes out of the vegetation around the main gallery; big tubular aluminium pipes, all interconnected, snaking their way around the place and back into the building.

Every World Cup, from Uruguay and Italy in 1930 and 1934, to Russia and Qatar in 2018 and 2022, has been to an extent about presenting an image to the world

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Football fans will be well aware that in 1930 Uruguay both hosted and won the first World Cup, but less well known is the diplomatic backstory of the country’s entry on to the international sporting stage. In the 1920s, Uruguay’s foreign minister, who led one of the country’s two rival football associations, coordinated with a diplomat serving in Switzerland to give his federation legitimacy by joining Fifa. The diplomat also entered Uruguay into the 1924 Olympic football tournament in Paris – which was emerging as the premier venue for global football. That provoked panic back in Uruguay: nobody had expected him to do that and nobody quite knew how they would afford it; a federation official ended up having to use his own house as collateral on a loan to pay for the team’s passage across the Atlantic.

Once they got to Europe, Uruguay quickly won admiration. First in nine friendlies as they travelled through Spain and then at the Olympic Games itself, where they became by far the biggest draw. The great novelist Colette was even dispatched to the villa where Uruguay were staying to record her impressions for the newspaper Le Matin. Playing brilliant, coherent passing football, Uruguay took gold at the Games.

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German chancellor stresses links with US and Nato during army visit without directly responding to US president’s overnight comments

The Commission was also asked about yesterday’s meeting of Hungary’s incoming prime minister, Péter Magyar.

But we didn’t get much more than what we saw in yesterday’s social media posts from Magyar and the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen.

Tory leader attacks Reform UK counterpart over undeclared gift in run-up to local elections

On BBC Radio Merseyside the presenter, Tony Snell, put it to Kemi Badenoch that Merseyside was a lost cause for the Tories. He said that Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, had been on the programme yesterday. He said that Farage argued that Scousers were down to earth and the Tories they were seen as “aloof and remote”.

Badenoch said no one had ever described her as aloof and remote. When it was put to her that Farage was talking about the party, she said the Tories were the party of working people. Labour were only interested in welfare, she claimed.

Nigel Farage can say as much as he wants that he’s the one who’s down to earth. Someone just gave him a £5m gift to the other day. I don’t know what’s down to earth about that.

Who gets £5m is a gift. If I got £50,000 as a gift, I think people would raise their eyebrows. That’s a hundred times that. And he forgot to register it. He forgot that he’d been given £5m. I don’t think that’s down to earth. So I’m not going to be taking any lessons from Nigel Farage.

In 2022, Aneil Karia won an Academy Award for his short starring Riz Ahmed. Now, he’s skewering Reform-style parliamentary candidates with the help of Jack Lowden and an unlikely online platform

Some film-makers have unrealistic expectations for their work; Aneil Karia is not one of them. “I’m not deluded enough to think that it’s going to bring down the government,” he says of his new film, Vote Gavin Lyle – but you never know, it just might. A funny, clever, superbly acted, small-but-perfectly-formed satire, Vote Gavin Lyle stars Jack Lowden as a wannabe Reform-style parliamentary candidate for the fictional middle-England constituency of Fletcham and Wold. At just 16 minutes long, it absolutely skewers the far-right mindset; not the minority-bashing, flag-hoisting street thugs, but the cannier, well-spoken Farageists who dominate the tendency’s leadership.

Without wanting to give away the film’s final flourish, it’s fair to say that there’s an element of empathy, even sympathy for its central character. Karia says: “I don’t think it’s interesting or useful to look at these people – far-right politicians, councillors, prospective candidates, whoever – and just say what nasty bastards they are. I think what strikes me about them is they’re just as vulnerable and scared as the rest of us.

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WhatsApp is voor veel mensen hét archief van hun leven: foto’s van kinderen, vakanties, spraakmemo’s, werkchats en buurtgroepen verdringen elkaar in een eindeloze stroom berichten. Maar al die gezelligheid heeft een schaduwkant: WhatsApp slokt steeds meer opslagruimte op – en nu komt daar ook nog een prijskaartje bij.

Wie z’n chats bewaart en automatisch laat back-uppen, merkt dat de app gigabytes aan ruimte inneemt in de cloud. Tot nu toe voelde dat “gratis”, verstopt in de bundel van Google of Apple. Maar die tijd loopt af: wie veel bewaart, moet straks gewoon bijbetalen voor extra opslag. Niet omdat jij ineens meer bent gaan appen, maar omdat de gratis ruimte krapper wordt en de betaalde bundels aantrekkelijker in beeld komen.

In Nederlandse techmedia wordt voor WhatsApp-back-ups vaak gerekend met “ongeveer 20 euro per jaar” als je een extra bundel nodig hebt om je chats in de cloud te houden.

Daarmee wordt een ongemakkelijke vraag ineens urgent: hoeveel WhatsApp-herinneringen zijn het ons eigenlijk waard? We kunnen natuurlijk grote foto’s en video’s opschonen, automatische downloads uitzetten en oude chats verwijderen. Maar dat kost tijd – en voelt snel als digitale zelfcensuur.

De ander optie is simpel: betalen en slikken dat nog een stukje van ons digitale leven achter een abonnementsscherm verdwijnt. In beide gevallen dwingt WhatsApp ons na te denken over iets waar we liever niet mee bezig zijn: de echte prijs van “gratis” communicatie.

BEIROET (ANP/AFP/RTR) - De Libanese president Joseph Aoun beticht Israël van "aanhoudende Israëlische schendingen" van het bestand in het zuiden van zijn land. Nog altijd vinden verwoestingen plaats en vallen er doden. Donderdag aan het begin van de middag heeft de Israëlische krijgsmacht opnieuw inwoners van Libanese plaatsen opgedragen om te vertrekken.

"De druk op Israël moet opgevoerd worden om te zorgen dat het zich houdt aan internationale wetten en conventies en de aanvallen op burgers, paramedici, burgerbescherming en humanitaire gezondheids- en hulporganisaties staakt", zei Aoun.

Het Libanese persbureau NNA meldde volgens Al Jazeera donderdagochtend negen doden bij aanvallen in drie plaatsen. Later kregen inwoners van nog eens acht andere plaatsen opdracht te vertrekken, omdat er aanvallen ophanden zijn.

Israël verjaagt in het zuiden van Libanon mensen en sloopt grote aantallen woningen. Doel is om een "bufferzone" te maken, die zou beschermen tegen aanvallen door Hezbollah.

STRAATSBURG (ANP) - De Europese Commissie moet een diepgaand onderzoek instellen naar de overname van het moederbedrijf van de elektronicaketens MediaMarkt en Saturn, wil het Europees Parlement. Het Chinese webwinkelconcern JD.com wil Ceconomy AG overnemen. Een voorstel van de Nederlandse Europarlementariër Dirk Gotink (NSC) voor een onderzoek is donderdag aangenomen in het Europees Parlement.

Gotink vreest dat het Chinese bedrijf Europese retailers uit de markt gaat drukken. Hij waarschuwt daarnaast voor het gebruik van klantgegevens door China, die met de overname in handen komen van de Chinezen. MediaMarkt en Saturn hebben miljoenen klantcontacten per jaar. "Ze kopen het adresboekje en die zijn goud waard", zegt Gotink.

Als de Commissie besluit tot een diepgaand onderzoek, kan de overname gedurende dat onderzoek niet doorgaan. Dat kan pas bij definitieve goedkeuring door de Commissie. De overname wordt later dit jaar van kracht, zo is de planning van beide ondernemingen.

'Strategische fout'

De overname is volgens Gotink al goedgekeurd door betrokken EU-lidstaten zoals Nederland en Duitsland. De Europese Commissie is de "laatste kans" om de overname onder de nu afgesproken voorwaarden te voorkomen, zegt Gotink.

Volgens de Europarlementariër is er geen besef van hoe groot JD.com is en wat de gevolgen kunnen zijn als dit bedrijf vaste voet in Europa krijgt. "Het is een strategische fout."

Vooronderzoek

De Commissie is recent een vooronderzoek gestart, waarbij wordt gekeken of een officieel en diepgaand onderzoek nodig is. Omdat de tijd volgens Gotink dringt, moet verantwoordelijk Eurocommissaris Teresa Ribera (Mededinging) nu een officieel onderzoek starten.

De Commissie is niet verplicht om deze wens van het parlement te honoreren.

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This Big W opened on Monday April 30 2001 along with the major expansion of Golden Grove Village (now simply called The Grove) which also included GO-LO, Subway, Franklins (which became Foodland in 2002 and is now Drakes), Michel's Patisserie and ChemPlus (now National Pharmacies).

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This Big W opened on Monday April 30 2001 along with the major expansion of Golden Grove Village (now simply called The Grove) which also included GO-LO, Subway, Franklins (which became Foodland in 2002 and is now Drakes), Michel's Patisserie and ChemPlus (now National Pharmacies).

Popplio728 has added a photo to the pool:

This Big W opened on Monday April 30 2001 along with the major expansion of Golden Grove Village (now simply called The Grove) which also included GO-LO, Subway, Franklins (which became Foodland in 2002 and is now Drakes), Michel's Patisserie and ChemPlus (now National Pharmacies).

Popplio728 has added a photo to the pool:

This Big W opened on Monday April 30 2001 along with the major expansion of Golden Grove Village (now simply called The Grove) which also included GO-LO, Subway, Franklins (which became Foodland in 2002 and is now Drakes), Michel's Patisserie and ChemPlus (now National Pharmacies).

Popplio728 has added a photo to the pool:

This Big W opened on Monday April 30 2001 along with the major expansion of Golden Grove Village (now simply called The Grove) which also included GO-LO, Subway, Franklins (which became Foodland in 2002 and is now Drakes), Michel's Patisserie and ChemPlus (now National Pharmacies).

Popplio728 has added a photo to the pool:

This Big W opened on Monday April 30 2001 along with the major expansion of Golden Grove Village (now simply called The Grove) which also included GO-LO, Subway, Franklins (which became Foodland in 2002 and is now Drakes), Michel's Patisserie and ChemPlus (now National Pharmacies).

Popplio728 has added a photo to the pool:

This Big W opened on Monday April 30 2001 along with the major expansion of Golden Grove Village (now simply called The Grove) which also included GO-LO, Subway, Franklins (which became Foodland in 2002 and is now Drakes), Michel's Patisserie and ChemPlus (now National Pharmacies).

Popplio728 has added a photo to the pool:

This Big W opened on Monday April 30 2001 along with the major expansion of Golden Grove Village (now simply called The Grove) which also included GO-LO, Subway, Franklins (which became Foodland in 2002 and is now Drakes), Michel's Patisserie and ChemPlus (now National Pharmacies).